No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

One look at the stranger staring back re-convinced me that I had to be dreaming. It was me, but at the same time completely not me.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

God will give you strength when you think you can’t go on. He will give you joy when you should be discouraged. He can make a way when it looks impossible.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.